Are new road cameras just going to punish the public?
Automated mobile phone enforcement could prevent 95 casualty crashes a year in Victoria — but is this more of a revenue raising ploy than action to save lives?
Patrick Carlyon
Victorians need to know we won’t be locked down again
Almost two years after the first of six lockdowns began, we retain unnecessary rules abandoned in other states. Instead of creating a roadmap, we need to let it go.
Entitled parents to blame for principal burnout
Melbourne’s lockdowns placed huge pressure on school principals and put them on the front line in the battle against that most feral of species – the entitled parent.
Funerals shouldn’t gloss over life’s ‘messy’ bits
Accolades and achievements don’t matter in the end. A life lived – in all its foibles and uncertainty – is more interesting when it comes to funerals.
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All essential workers should be compelled to get the jab
Anything that brings an end to lockdowns – be it mandatory jabs of essential workers and no vax/no school policies – must be grasped soon rather than later.
Year 12s in limbo as forgotten losers of the pandemic
Victorian year 12s will soon face the biggest test of their lives but bumbling and dithering from the Andrews government means they have no certainty about VCE exams.
It’s the young fighting for our future
We have many unkind words about young people but their appetite for the Covid jab is showing up more senior generations.
NSW Covid response beset by torpor and denial
If Victoria had applied Sydney’s outbreak settings after NSW removalists brought Covid to town, we would be awash in virus instead of exiting lockdown.
Removalists’ day of reckoning never arrived
The NSW removalists who locked us down have been fined just .00299 cents for every Victorian whose lives they stopped.
PM’s hapless posturing offers no solutions
The vaccine rollout has had more mixed messages than the Collingwood board and Scotty from Marketing is failing to provide any certainty.
NSW’s lockdown staycation hurts us all
Victorians know a lockdown when they see one, and what’s happening in Sydney isn’t one. It’s time they go hard or hurt the nation.
Lockdown blame spreads wider than removalist fools
A better national pandemic strategy would have protected us from rogue idiots like the Sydney removalists who plunged us into lockdown.
Australia doomed to lag behind the world on Covid freedom
While other countries stride to Covid freedom Australia is still paralysed by lockdowns and it may take years for us to catch up.
Young people must ignore the scaremongering
Federal and state politicians have botched the jab rollout and the quarantine programs — and now they are scaremongering our only hope of beating Covid.
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